Farm Friends
New Image Brewing Company

Can from Market of Choice.

A mildly hazy light yellow with a rapidly receding off-white head that leaves no lacing. The nose is a great blend of peach and Brett funk. The peach character is gorgeous, deep, floral, ripe, mildly lemony with a spicy, clove and peppery Brett funk. Mild straw. The palate opens with loads of peach, soft, fruity, floral, mildly vanilla like. Really lovely peach character. The mid-palate has funk with clove, pepper, a mild straw and wet hay like funk. Drying, tart, mild alcohol on the finish that amplifies the spice notes. Quite excellent.

 

extraordinary, just wonderful, pure money, old world meets new, all the flavor you can imagine in a beer, and just so heady and thoughtful, i hope they make this again and i hope i can get some, thanks to my homie for the hookup! jester king in a can is cool, i think new image was probably stoked on the collaboration opportunity too, what brewery wouldnt be? i know id be flattered. mixed culture saison with peaches, aged hops, and aged hop terpenes, which is a phrase i have never head of in beer, do hop terpenes that have been aged also contribute something like aged whole cone hops do when the alpha drops out and the get cheesy and funky like you find in lambic? never heard of that, thought of terpenes as a way to make hops more intense, not less, enhancing rather than transforming, who would ever even think to age them, or to extract or create aged hop terps, so clever and cool, id love to know more about how they did this. looks like orange juice in the glass, really hazy and quite dense, pale orange toned, then with a big airy white proper saison looking head. a little strange looking, but not unrefined, still appealing despite the density, seems to get some color from the peaches, which we dont usually consider as a color agent right? the nose on this is heaven, and its the same as the flavor, pure juicy ripe summer yellow peaches in all their glory, fuzzy skins, drippy sweet flesh, light tang, just so pure in here. i love that this isnt really sour too, so many great peach funky and wild beers are also super bacterial, and its cool to have the peach in a softer context. this smells and tastes funky more than acidic, not woody or mature in that way, but still bretty and well developed, lemony and tangy at the most on that side, highlighting the peach well. the aged hop aspect is crazy, its subtle i guess to some extent, like this is both fruity and yeasty before its hoppy in any traditional sense, but these hops impart some neat herbal bitterness for balance as well as some additional hard to place funk and farmy aspects. this teases that lambic hop thing, but its different, more forward, but also more subtle, the terpenes do something different in this than they do in other beers, the aged factor is strange to me, but it adds somehow an odd maturity to this in another way, i need more of this, i didnt quite have it figured out by the time the can was gone. juicy peach, almost a milky or vanilla aspect too, peach shake, fresh apricot too, light citrus, weird hops, a light saison ester, some brett doing its thing, wheat, maybe some raw wheat, oats likely, fuller feeling but fluffy too, its so complex, modern an distinctive, i had no clue to it was 8% abv when i was drinking it either, insane. never tasted anything like it before, but i sure hope i do again. i have more questions than answers at this point, but this definitely lived up to high expectations!

edit: semi lost one of these in the beer fridge and cracked into it last night, about four months after original review. i know the can says drink fresh or drink now or something, but its changed uniquely in this short time, drier for sure, a little more yeast character to it, bretty funkiness too, and the peaches have an almost peach ice cream decadence to them, without being sugary, so complex, fermentation forward, and unique with the aged hops. definitely one of my favorite beers of the year so far, i want this to become a series, new fruit each time, lets go!

Initiates with a bright, mildy tart punch. Softens to the mid palate with ripe, bitter peach flavor and subtle hop notes. 2 out of 5 it terms of sourness. Lovely.